I, Skia, hereby apply for core-dev.

I am applying because:

• I'd like to be able to officially join the Release Team.
• I'd like to help smoothen the release process by being able to upload some bits by myself.
• I'd like to be able to push some improvements to tools like MoM.

Who I am

This is almost plain copy-paste from my Contributing Developer application, given that the story hasn't changed.

My name is Florent Jacquet, but just call me Skia, even IRL, as everyone does.

I first installed Xubuntu 7.10 alternate edition on a 64MB RAM machine in 2008. The machine was already 10 years old by that time, but the lightweight system made it usable again, and it was great! Since then, I’ve installed a lot of {X,K,}Ubuntu on all my relative’s machines: parents, grand-parents, uncles, cousins, high-school companions, high school’s machines themselves, university friends and associations, you name it. I’ve personally distro-hoped for a while, but always kept either Debian or Ubuntu on my servers or machines that I wanted stable.

I now work since 2023-10-31 for Canonical as part of Foundations/Ubuntu QA/Release Management team.

My Ubuntu story

My involvement

Examples of my work / Things I'm proud of

• TODO: triage those

• 2024-07-30 - Ubuntu Oracular - autopkgtest/5.37ubuntu4

• 2024-04-19 - Ubuntu Noble - apt-clone/0.4.3+nmu2ubuntu2

• 2024-03-22 - Ubuntu Noble - pg-gvm/22.6.2-1build1

• 2024-03-21 - Ubuntu Noble - gvmd/23.1.0-1ubuntu1

• 2024-02-13 - Ubuntu Mantic - autopkgtest/5.32ubuntu3~23.10.1

• 2023-12-15 - Ubuntu Noble - klibc/2.0.13-2ubuntu1

Feature upload

• 2025-03-19 - Ubuntu Plucky - whoopsie/0.2.79

  • AptSolverDump support + packaging improvements

  • This one counts as FFe too, mentioned below

• 2025-02-05 - Ubuntu Noble - base-files/13ubuntu10.2

  • TODO: add description

• 2025-01-27 - Ubuntu Noble - python-apt/2.7.7ubuntu4

  • TODO: add description

• 2024-10-07 - Ubuntu Oracular - base-files/13.3ubuntu6

  • TODO: add description

Package Merges and Syncs

• 2025-02-19 - Ubuntu Plucky - kbd/2.7.1-2ubuntu1

  • TODO: add description

• 2025-01-13 - Ubuntu Plucky - shadow/1:4.16.0-7ubuntu1

  • TODO: add description

• 2025-01-13 - Ubuntu Plucky - util-linux/2.40.2-14ubuntu1

  • TODO: add description

Bug Fixes & SRUs

• mod_python crash:

  • 2025-03-03 - Ubuntu Jammy - libapache2-mod-python/3.5.0+git20211031-0ubuntu3

• zip crash:

  • 2025-01-24 - Ubuntu Oracular - zip/3.0-14ubuntu0.2

  • 2025-01-24 - Ubuntu Noble - zip/3.0-13ubuntu0.2

  • 2025-01-17 - Ubuntu Plucky - zip/3.0-14ubuntu2

• autopkgtest new release

  • 2024-10-15 - Ubuntu Noble - autopkgtest/5.38ubuntu1~24.04.1

  • 2024-10-15 - Ubuntu Jammy - autopkgtest/5.38ubuntu1~22.04.1

• whoopsie FTBFS

  • 2024-09-23 - Ubuntu Oracular - whoopsie/0.2.78

Autopkgtest & DEP8

* TODO: talk about rust-reqwest, util-linux, zip

Proposed Migrations

• I'm regularly being affected packages stuck in proposed during Foundations' Thursday meetings. Working with those usually involves retriggering autopkgtest, sometimes finding the right triggers for the tests to pass, and more rarely a fix to be uploaded.

• As part of my work on the autopkgtest infrastructure, I also regularly run retry-autopkgtest-regression for massive re-run of tests, sometimes involving shenanigans like adding a particular trigger for big sets of packages, or even running them with all-proposed=1.

Transitions

* TODO: make some

Milestones and Exceptions

• Debian Import Freeze:

  • 2024-04-23 - Ubuntu Noble - capnproto/1.0.1-4

• FFe:

  • https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/whoopsie/+bug/2103526

+1 maintenance

* TODO: make some

MIRs

• 2024-09-18 - Ubuntu Noble - retry/1.0.5-3build1~ubuntu0.24.04.1

• 2024-09-16 - Ubuntu Jammy - retry/1.0.4-3build1

Seed Operations

• https://code.launchpad.net/~hyask/ubuntu-seeds/+git/ubuntu-seeds/+merge/483070

  • TODO: add description

Working with upstream

Debian

• util-linux:

  • Forwarding a dep8 test for util-linux: https://salsa.debian.org/debian/util-linux/-/merge_requests/37

  • Subsequently patching this test after some feedback and discussion with zeha: https://salsa.debian.org/debian/util-linux/-/merge_requests/39

• autopkgtest:

  • This is closer to my regular work, so there are many MR that have been merged there already.

  • See https://salsa.debian.org/ci-team/autopkgtest/-/merge_requests?scope=all&state=all&author_username=skia

• zip: forwarded a dep8 test + bugfix:

  • https://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=1093629

Upstream projects

• rust-reqwest: helped make the tests work within a proxy environment:

  • https://github.com/seanmonstar/reqwest/pull/2349

  • https://github.com/seanmonstar/reqwest/pull/2418

• systemd: some documentation update on the mutually beneficial integration autopkgtest has with the upstream project:

  • https://github.com/systemd/systemd/pull/32584

Misc

TODO

Bug Triage

• Regular Foundations bug triage:
  • TODO: describe and link that work

Areas of work

Things I could do better

Plans for the future

General

What I like least in Ubuntu

Comments

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